Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
BARBARA WALTERSSuccess can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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The word ‘charismatic’ was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, ‘Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press…does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.’
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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